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Author : Jennifer Zdon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615272757
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (727 download)
Download or read book New Orleans A to Z written by Jennifer Zdon and published by . This book was released on 2008-12-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Poppy Z. Brite
Publisher : Small Beer Press
ISBN 13 : 1931520607
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Second Line written by Poppy Z. Brite and published by Small Beer Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: hese two short novels bookend Poppy Z. Brite's cheerfully chaotic series starring two chefs in New Orleans. The Value of X introduces G-man and Rickey, who grew up in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward and who are slowly realizing there are only two important things in life: cooking and each other. Rickey's parents aren't quite so taken with the boy's plans and get him an impossible-to-resist place at the Culinary Institute of America. In D*U*C*K, Rickey and G-man's restaurant, Liquor, is doing well but there are the usual complications of running a kitchen: egos get bruised, people get fired . . . and then Rickey is jumped in an alley by one of their ex-waiters. On the mend, Rickey takes a side job to cater the annual Ducks Unlimited banquet, where every course must, of course, include the ducks the hunters have bagged. Rickey's crew are ready to meet the challenge, but Rickey's not sure he can do it all and deal with the guest of honor--his childhood hero, former New Orleans Saints quarterback Bobby Hebert. "Fun foodie fiction, and readers will scarf it down as quickly as a plate of blackened crawfish."--Publishers Weekly Originally published in limited hardcover editions, these two novels are full of the pure joy of love, hard work, and great food and are a tremendous extension (or introduction) to Brite's series. Praise fo the Rickey and G-man stories: "A high-end restaurant is...a gift that keeps on giving. The heat, the bickerings and intrigue, the pursuit of perfection, the dodgy money keeping it all afloate: the setting spawns plots...Can the [Liquor] franchise sustain itself? The answer is yes."--New York Times "World-class satire and perfect New Orleans lit."--Andrei Codrescu "Steeped in spicy dialogue and [New Orleans] flavor...a behind-the-swinging-door peek into the world of chefs."--Entertainment Weekly Poppy Z. Brite's fiction set in the New Orleans restaurant world includes Prime, Liquor, and Soul Kitchen. She has also published five other novels and three short story collections. She lives with her husband Chris, a chef, in New Orleans.
Author : Raymond J. Martinez
Publisher : Quid Pro Books
ISBN 13 : 1610272471
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)
Download or read book New Orleans: Facts and Legends written by Raymond J. Martinez and published by Quid Pro Books. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW ORLEANS: FACTS AND LEGENDS is a classic compilation of history, tales, and folklore about the Crescent City. It is peppered with numerous vintage photographs of historic sites and the legendary men and women who framed Louisiana's life and lore. Now available in a quality ebook edition, it features active contents, linked table of illustrations, proper digital formatting, and all the illustrations from the original print book. Maintained in its original edition and accurately reproduced, this book is perfect for tourists and locals alike, including curious teens and old-timers. It was written and presented by two well-known keepers of New Orleans' rich heritage. The contents include: • The History of Mardi Gras • Jackson Square • French or Spanish? • Explorers of the Mississippi • Was Jean Lafitte Truly a Pirate? • The Old New Orleans Mint • Antique Furniture in Louisiana • Charity Hospital in 1859 • Yellow Fever and the Mosquito • The German Coast and Creole Descendants • Landmarks of New Orleans • The Old River Front • Canal Street in 1857 • The Customhouse of New Orleans • Louisiana Sugar and Molasses Mills Presented in a carefully proofread and formatted digital edition, this new republication at last makes readily available, preserved in its original contents, a classic New Orleans book.
Author : Walker Percy
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453216375
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Signposts in a Strange Land written by Walker Percy and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writings on the South, Catholicism, and more from the National Book Award winner: “His nonfiction is always entertaining and enlightening” (Library Journal). Published just after Walker Percy’s death, Signposts in a Strange Land takes readers through the philosophical, religious, and literary ideas of one of the South’s most profound and unique thinkers. Each essay is laced with wit and insight into the human condition. From race relations and the mysteries of existence, to Catholicism and the joys of drinking bourbon, this collection offers a window into the underpinnings of Percy’s celebrated novels and brings to light the stirring thoughts and voice of a giant of twentieth century literature.
Author : Elizabeth M. Williams
Publisher : AltaMira Press
ISBN 13 : 0759121389
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (591 download)
Download or read book New Orleans written by Elizabeth M. Williams and published by AltaMira Press. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beignets, Po’ Boys, gumbo, jambalaya, Antoine’s. New Orleans’ celebrated status derives in large measure from its incredibly rich food culture, based mainly on Creole and Cajun traditions. At last, this world-class destination has its own food biography. Elizabeth M. Williams, a New Orleans native and founder of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum there, takes readers through the history of the city, showing how the natural environment and people have shaped the cooking we all love. The narrative starts with the indigenous population, resources and environment, then reveals the contributions of the immigrant populations, major industries, marketing networks, and retail and major food industries and finally discusses famous restaurants and signature dishes. This must-have book will inform and delight food aficionados and fans of the Big Easy itself.
Author : Pia Z. Ehrhardt
Publisher : MacAdam/Cage Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Famous Fathers & Other Stories written by Pia Z. Ehrhardt and published by MacAdam/Cage Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wavering between fidelity and freedom, the women in this sparkling debut collection deal with emotional damage and unhealed heartbreak by plunging into unusual, often bizarre, relationships"--Inside cover.
Author : Olive Leonhardt
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807159921
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Shaking Up Prohibition in New Orleans written by Olive Leonhardt and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1920s Prohibition was the law, but ignoring it was the norm, especially in New Orleans. While popular writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald invented partygoers who danced from one cocktail to the next, real denizens of the French Quarter imbibed their way across the city. Bringing to life the fiction of flappers with tastes beyond bathtub gin, Shaking Up Prohibition in New Orleans: Authentic Vintage Cocktails from A to Z serves up recipes from the era of the speakeasy. Originally assembled by Olive Leonhardt and Hilda Phelps Hammond around 1929, this delightful compendium applauds the city's irrepressible love for cocktails in the format of a classic alphabet book. Leonhardt, a noted artist, illustrated each letter of the alphabet, while Hammond provided cocktail recipes alongside tongue-in-cheek poems that jab at the dubious scenario of a "dry" New Orleans. A cultural snapshot of the Crescent City's resistance to Prohibition, this satirical, richly illustrated book brings to life the spirit and spirits of a jazz city in the Jazz Age. With an introduction on Prohibition-era New Orleans by historian John Magill and biographical profiles of Leonhardt and Hammond by editor Gay Leonhardt, readers can fully appreciate the setting and the personalities behind this vintage cocktail guide with a Big Easy bent. A perfect gift for lovers (and makers) of craft cocktails, arbiters of style, and celebrants of the Crescent City, Shaking Up Prohibition in New Orleans captures the essence of the Roaring Twenties.
Author : Sara Roahen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393061673
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Gumbo Tales written by Sara Roahen and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of the food culture of New Orleans recounts the Wisconsin native's introduction to such regional classics as gumbo, po-boys, and red beans and rice.
Author : Lyle Saxon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Fabulous New Orleans written by Lyle Saxon and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is rather like a Mardi Gras parade -- a series of impressions. Each chapter is like a decorated car which tells a story. Some of the stories are brave and courageous, others are informative, or amusing, or bizarre, or fantastic. or cruel; but they are all interlocking stories--a pageant of a city...I have not attempted to write history in its strict sense although the main events of the French, Spanish and American Dominations are outlined and several chapters on the new New Orleans have been added."-- from Introduction.
Author : Ned Sublette
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1569765138
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (697 download)
Download or read book The World That Made New Orleans written by Ned Sublette and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: STRONGNamed one of the Top 10 Books of 2008 by The Times-Picayune. STRONGWinner of the 2009 Humanities Book of the Year award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.STRONG STRONGAwarded the New Orleans Gulf South Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award for 2008. New Orleans is the most elusive of American cities. The product of the centuries-long struggle among three mighty empires--France, Spain, and England--and among their respective American colonies and enslaved African peoples, it has always seemed like a foreign port to most Americans, baffled as they are by its complex cultural inheritance. The World That Made New Orleans offers a new perspective on this insufficiently understood city by telling the remarkable story of New Orleans's first century--a tale of imperial war, religious conflict, the search for treasure, the spread of slavery, the Cuban connection, the cruel aristocracy of sugar, and the very different revolutions that created the United States and Haiti. It demonstrates that New Orleans already had its own distinct personality at the time of Louisiana's statehood in 1812. By then, important roots of American music were firmly planted in its urban swamp--especially in the dances at Congo Square, where enslaved Africans and African Americans appeared en masse on Sundays to, as an 1819 visitor to the city put it, &“rock the city.&” This book is a logical continuation of Ned Sublette's previous volume, Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo, which was highly praised for its synthesis of musical, cultural, and political history. Just as that book has become a standard resource on Cuba, so too will The World That Made New Orleans long remain essential for understanding the beautiful and tragic story of this most American of cities.
Author : Henry C. Castellanos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book New Orleans as it was written by Henry C. Castellanos and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martha Zschock
Publisher : Commonwealth Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781933212630
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (126 download)
Download or read book Hello, New Orleans! written by Martha Zschock and published by Commonwealth Editions. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to New Orleans Parent and child pelicans take a short tour of the Crescent City in best-selling author-illustrator Martha Day Zschock's Hello board book series for children. From the French Quarter to the Garden District, along the Mississippi and across Lake Ponchartrain, join the pelicans as they listen to music at Preservation Hall, celebrate Mardi Gras, and eat jambalaya and gumbo. Visit the Audubon Zoo and City Park, ride a St. Charles Avenue streetcar, and cheer the Saints. Along the way take a swamp tour, visit a plantation, and even ride on a steamboat For ages 2-5. Made in the USA.
Author : Louise McKinney
Publisher : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
ISBN 13 : 9781904955023
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (55 download)
Download or read book New Orleans written by Louise McKinney and published by C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS. This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its antebellum mansions, aboveground cemeteries and ghostly moss-bearded oaks, New Orleans is certainly the most un-American of American cities, creating its own laid-back Big Easy attitude from the customs of the people who founded it: French and Spanish colonists, gens de couleur libres, Northern adventurers, riverboat men, pirates, and Cajuns. From this eclectic mix of influences has evolved a distinctive Creole culture, expressed in language, architecture and cuisine. The city is also uniquely vulnerable to climatic disaster, but as the events of 2005 have shown, is resilient and irrepressibly positive in its outlook. Louise McKinney explores the soul of this deeply spiritual and hedonistic place, where every year the pre-Lenten Mardi Gras bursts forth with outrageous excess.
Author : Lawrence N. Powell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674065441
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Accidental City written by Lawrence N. Powell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-13 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the history of the city from its being contended over as swampland through Louisiana's statehood in 1812, discussing its motley identities as a French village, African market town, Spanish fortress, and trade center.
Author : Susan Larson
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807153095
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Booklover’s Guide to New Orleans written by Susan Larson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literary tradition of New Orleans spans centuries and touches every genre; its living heritage winds through storied neighborhoods and is celebrated at numerous festivals across the city. For booklovers, a visit to the Big Easy isn't complete without whiling away the hours in an antiquarian bookstore in the French Quarter or stepping out on a literary walking tour. Perhaps only among the oak-lined avenues, Creole town houses, and famed hotels of New Orleans can the lust of A Streetcar Named Desire, the zaniness of A Confederacy of Dunces, the chill of Interview with the Vampire, and the heartbreak of Walker Percy's Moviegoer begin to resonate. Susan Larson's revised and updated edition of The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans not only explores the legacy of Tennessee Williams and William Faulkner, but also visits the haunts of celebrated writers of today, including Anne Rice and James Lee Burke. This definitive guide provides a key to the books, authors, festivals, stores, and famed addresses that make the Crescent City a literary destination.
Author : Poppy Brite
Publisher : Dell
ISBN 13 : 0307768287
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Lost Souls written by Poppy Brite and published by Dell. This book was released on 2010-11-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vampires . . . they ache, they love, they thirst for the forbidden. They are your friends and lovers, and your worst fears. “A major new voice in horror fiction . . . an electric style and no shortage of nerve.”—Booklist At a club in Missing Mile, N.C., the children of the night gather, dressed in black, look for acceptance. Among them are Ghost, who sees what others do not; Ann, longing for love; and Jason, whose real name is Nothing, newly awakened to an ancient, deathless truth about his father, and himself. Others are coming to Missing Mile tonight. Three beautiful, hip vagabonds—Molochai, Twig, and the seductive Zillah, whose eyes are as green as limes—are on their own lost journey, slaking their ancient thirst for blood, looking for supple young flesh. They find it in Nothing and Ann, leading them on a mad, illicit road trip south to New Orleans. Over miles of dark highway, Ghost pursues, his powers guiding him on a journey to reach his destiny, to save Ann from her new companions, to save Nothing from himself. . . . “An important and original work . . . a gritty, highly literate blend of brutality and sentiment, hope and despair.”—Science Fiction Chronicle
Author : John Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book New Orleans Stories written by John Miller and published by . This book was released on 1992-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alive with jazz and tropical flowers, its streets an intoxicating 24-hour party, New Orleans exerts a hypnotic effect on virtually every visitor and resident, but perhaps none have been more susceptible to its exotic charm than the writers who have lived there. From Mark Twain to William Faulkner to Anne Rice; from Kate Chopin to Zora Neale Hurston to Ellen Gilchrist; from Tennessee Williams to Truman Capote to Walker Percy, the authors in this remarkable collection celebrate the city that stirs their imaginations as no other can. Third in our best-selling series of anthologies centered around America's great cities, New Orleans Stories includes not only "literature," but also interviews, ghost stories, and voodoo charms. Perfect for first-time visitors as well as longtime residents, it re-creates the heady, mesmerizing atmosphere of New Orleans itself.
